Chapter 1115: Humanity vs. Artificial Intelligence (Start)
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
The next day.
The AI, Peter, was once again dominating the news throughout Asia!
The cause of this was China Qiyuan's revelation of Peter's operating principle, a magnificent analysis report over a 1,000 words that was written in great detail. At the end, the author of the report was also indicated. It was signed as: An anonymous mathematician who does not wish to reveal his na.
The netizens were stunned!
"So that's what it is!"
"It actually plays Go in this way!"
"Thinking? Bullshit! Who are the Aricans trying to bluff!"
"Those Aricans really love bragging too much!"
"Who wrote this report?"
"This is so aweso!"
"It's only been a day?"
"An anonymous mathematician who does not wish to reveal his na?"
"Thank you for contributing to the cause of humanity!"
"An unsung hero!"
Both dostic and international experts were very surprised. After going through a lot of reverse verifications, they discovered that 90% of this analysis report was true and reliable! In just a short span of a day, and after just two gas of Go, Peter's operating principle had been analyzed? Who could have done it?
At Old Wu's parents' house.
Li Qinqin was very shocked. "Changhe, was this analysis conducted by the Qiyuan?"
Wu Changhe mumbled, "Ah, er…"
"The only person who studied math at the Qiyuan should be Chen Ying, right?" Li Qinqin was doubtful.
Wu Changhe said, "Why do you care who analyzed it?"
Li Qinqin said, "I just want to know. So who was it?"
Wu Changhe scowled and muttered, "That Zhang kid!"
"Little Zhang wrote it?" Li Qinqin laughed. "I knew it. How could the people at the Qiyuan possibly co up with sothing this impressive. With one glance, I knew that this report was written by so career academic. What do you think now? I told you Little Zhang wasn't bad, right? And you're still displeased with him. Look at how concerned he is with your problem. He imdiately got to work and researched the problem when he knew that you all t with trouble. He's even this thorough when the task was supposed to have been done by others!"
Wu Changhe stared at her and said, "Has that kid cast a spell on you or sothing? Why do you keep speaking up for him!"
Li Qinqin laughed and said, "Hur hur, I wonder that too. I like him no matter which side of him I see."
…
The Japanese were watching the developnts very closely.
"It's finally been figured out!"
"So that's how it is!"
"Shinji 9-dan's chances of victory has increased by another percentage point!"
"Thanks to the Chinese!"
…
The Korean Go community was the sa.
"This report has proven very valuable!"
"So that's what it really is!"
"The Chinese mathematicians are really aweso!"
…
Over in Arica.
The company that developed Peter was thrown into disarray at the sa ti!
The managent flew into a rage and gathered up the program's core developers!
"Who was it? Who leaked the information?"
"Goddammit!"
"How did the Chinese get their hands on the information!"
"It's alright. Even if they know how Peter works, they can't win all the sa!"
"But what I want to know is, how the hell did they find out? How?"
Everyone looked at one another in silence.
But what the Arican company would never be able to figure out was that other than them, there was actually soone else who had seen a similar AI program that could play Go. And that soone was Zhang Ye—a person who couldn't truly be considered soone from this world.
…
A day later.
Noon.
Zhang Ye had a room booked in a restaurant for a lunch date with so people.
Dong Shanshan, Yao Jiancai, Chen Guang, Fan Wenli, Xiaodong, Amy, Li Xiaoxian, Zhang Xia, and most of the other guests and contestants from King of Masked Singers had been invited. There were also a few others that Zhang Ye had inford but were unable to make it as they were busy with work.
"Co. I said that it would be my treat today!" Zhang Ye said as he arranged for the guests to get seated.
Dong Shanshan sat down and crossed her legs. "Don't worry. No one is going to fight you over the bill today."
Yao Jiancai laughed heartily. "Yeah, we'll be helping ourselves."
Chen Guang flipped open the nu and remarked, "Let's see, what's the most expensive item in here."
"There's no need to scrimp for Director Zhang," Fan Wenli chorused after her husband.
Zhang Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Can we hold back a little? I'm just a salaried employee, and it's not easy to earn money, so please don't overdo it. Just order enough to eat, please."
Dong Shanshan glanced at him. "You're a dostic superstar. Why are you still so stingy?"
Xiaodong giggled and said, "Yeah, amongst all of us here, you're the one who's the most popular. Since everyone took ti out of their schedules to celebrate for you, you better not be thinking of trying to save money today!"
Li Xiaoxian was relatively quiet. She did not speak much and just laughed.
Everyone was talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was great.
Suddenly, Dong Shanshan called a waiter over to get him to turn on the television.
Amy asked, "What's going on?"
Dong Shanshan said, "Don't you all know? Today is the first ti that an AI challenged a human. The battle's about to begin."
Yao Jiancai slapped the table. "That's right, I nearly forgot!"
Zhang Xia smiled widely and said, "I'm rather looking forward to it as well."
Xiaodong said, "Haha, I dare not speak about other areas. But when it cos to intelligence, a machine would never win against a human. We don't even need to watch!"
Li Xiaoxian said, "That's not necessarily true."
Chen Guang agreed. "Yeah, the Aricans ca bearing down so nacingly this ti. If they weren't confident about it, they wouldn't have dared to issue a challenge to all humanity."
The television was turned on.
Central TV Sports Channel.
The image was one of the live broadcast of the match from the competition venue in Tokyo. The competition had not started yet, but Shinji 9-dan had already made his appearance. The international referee was speaking to him, and there were no spectators around them. This was to ensure absolute silence during the ga, so there would only be the referee 1 and players present.
From the Central TV comntary box, Yu Yingyi's voice rang out. "We can see that the match will begin soon."
Zhang Ye said, "Yingyi went too?"
Dong Shanshan said, "Yeah, she's the host."
Yao Jiancai asked, "Who's she?"
Zhang Ye smiled and said, "She's mine and Shanshan's uni classmate. We were in the sa class, and she's currently a host with Central TV Sports Channel. I never expected that Yingyi could play Go as well."
Yu Yingyi was actually just the host. Her main duty today had nothing to do with comntary.
The person in charge of that was Chen Ying 7-dan, who was sitting beside her. She was a pretty female Go player.
10 minutes later.
The match began!
As the best Japanese Go player, Shinji 9-dan was very composed today. He picked the black stones and started the ga calmly. As his opponent was an AI, it could only display its moves onscreen. Since traditional Go players were still used to playing physically at a proper Go board, Peter required a representative to be the middleman to input Shinji 9-dan's moves after he made them. Then, when Peter responded with its move onscreen, the middleman would place a stone on the physical Go board at the corresponding position—the middleman was a Caucasian person who was a representative from Peter's developnt company.
Dong Shanshan and the others ate as they watched the ga.
So of them could understand what was happening, while those who didn't could only rely on the comntary.
Zhang Ye was actually quite concerned about this match too, even if he felt that this matter had nothing to do with him.
Five stones.
Ten stones.
Twenty stones.
As the ga progressed faster and faster, Zhang Ye's frown beca more and more obvious.
Li Xiaoxian put her chopsticks down. She exclaid, "How amazing!"
Amy blinked and asked, "Who's amazing?"
Xiaodong knew that Li Xiaoxian knew how to play Go. "Who has the advantage?"
"PETER!" Li Xiaoxian said.
On TV.
Yu Yingyi said, "Teacher Chen Ying, what do you make of this move?"
Chen Ying 7-dan said in shock, "Shinji 9-dan has miscalculated his move. It seems like this ga will end early!"
Yu Yingyi said in surprise, "It's going to end this soon?"
Sure enough, a short while later, Shinji 9-dan finally resigned from the ga after spending a long ti thinking and becoming frustrated and annoyed.
The referee imdiately ca over to confirm his decision.
Yu Yingyi exclaid, "My goodness! We see that Shinji 9-dan has resigned from the ga!"
Chen Ying 7-dan said, "If Peter can even beat Shinji 9-dan, then this would be really too frightful!"
Yu Yingyi said, "We'll be showing the second ga between Peter and Shinji 9-dan tomorrow at the sa ti. Let's hope Shinji 9-dan catches up in the next ga!"
The competition was based on a best of three!
If he were to lose again tomorrow, Shinji 9-dan would officially lose!
Later, during the post-match conference, Shinji 9-dan answered so of the reporters' questions looking rather dejected. He was clearly distracted!
When it was ti for the Arican representative to say a few words, he was clearly very excited and spoke loftily.
Xiaodong could no longer watch. "This Arican is too arrogant!"
Yao Jiancai said, "Even Shinji 9-dan could not win?"
Chen Guang said, "Could there really be no one who can defeat them?"
"There's still another ga tomorrow. Let's not speak too early," Li Xiaoxian said.
Zhang Xia said, "If it still doesn't work out, we still have Xiang Rong 9-dan around."
…
At this mont, all the attention throughout Asia was focused on this battle of the century in Tokyo!
"Did we lose?"
"Shinji 9-dan lost?"
"How could that be!"
"This…we couldn't even win?"
"Could it be that Shinji 9-dan was unable to play to his potential?"
"That shouldn't be the case!"
"Damn, we'll have to wait for tomorrow!"
"Right, we'll definitely win tomorrow!"
"If not, there's still Park Yuhee 9-dan, and also Xiang Rong 9-dan!"
"That's right, Peter cannot possibly win every ti!"
"Humans can't possibly lose to an AI!"
"Intelligence is the last bit of dignity that we humans have!"
"Humanity will prevail!"
"Humanity will prevail!"
This ga of Go had ignited the fears of many people. On this day, countless people started panicking. They suddenly felt a chill in the depths of their hearts and were feeling a little afraid. If humans were to lose to AI in a test of intelligence, then…that was sothing that was totally unimaginable to them!
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